Dr Camilla Morelli

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Biography

My research explores the lives of indigenous children and youth growing up amidst radical socioeconomic change in Amazonia, and asks what is the future of indigenous peoples in times of enhanced globalised exchanges and rapid expansion of neoliberal markets in Latin America.

Based on over 20 months of ethnographic fieldwork with Matses people in Peru, my work shows that children and youth play an active and crucial role in defining current and future developments of Amerindian societies, and as such a child-focussed analysis is not only relevant to the study of social transformation across the world but is also necessary ...

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Recent publications

• Morelli, C, 2019, ‘Children of the Rainforest: Shaping the Future in Amazonia’.
• Morelli, C, 2017, ‘The river echoes with laughter: a child-centred analysis of social change in Amazonia’. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, vol 23., pp. 137-154

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